"What's the use?
I'm not half killed." "Perhaps you think you can hoodwink me!" cried Diamond.

"Well, you cannot! You were in the game all the time.

That's why you were so ready to meet me in a duel--that's why you came here." "I assure you on my word of honor that you are wrong." "Your word of honor!" "Yes, my word of honor," he calmly returned.

"See--look at my clothes.
You can tell that I have been through the mill." "You may have had them fixed that way on purpose to fool me." "Oh, you must know better than that! Be reasonable, Diamond." The Virginian made a savage gesture.
"If you are so pleased to be made a laughingstock of it's nothing to me," he flashed.

"Keep still if you want to.